Theory Entertainment On Steroids I got back into the gym for the first time in a long time this week. I enjoy powerlifting, so even though I’m not very good at it (yet) I’m already looking forward to my next gym session. In the meantime, I’ve been watching replays of the
Abstraction Writing Systems: Signs, Icons, Symbols and Abstraction In my last post, I wrote about abstraction in computer engineering. In today’s post, I want to start laying the foundation for looking at abstraction in two other fields, in visual arts and in linguistics. To do that, we’ll start in a place where the two fields overlap:
Abstraction Layers of Abstraction The essence of abstractions is preserving information that is relevant in a given context, and forgetting information that is irrelevant in that context. – John V. Guttag (from Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python)I started learning programming when I was 10, when I walked into my father’s study
Undergrad Writing the Essay: Beethoven This essay was written in the Spring 2011 semester as part of the Writing The Essay: The World Through Art course at New York University, which is now numbered ASPP-UT 2. “We are going to try to perform for you today a curious and rather difficult experiment, “ says Leonard Bernstein
Undergrad Writing the Essay: The Unbelievable Truth This essay was written in the Fall 2010 semester as part of the Writing The Essay: Art in the World course at New York University, which is now numbered EXPOS-UA 5. As far as raw documentary material goes, it is hard not to feel that Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe
